The strengths of language
You identify the writing and transformation tasks where a model is most reliable.
ObjectiveBy the end of this lesson, you will be able to give a model the tasks of form where it is most reliable, supplying the source content yourself.
Language models are remarkably good at everything to do with the form and structure of a text. This is where they save you the most time, with the least risk.
What they do very well
- Rephrasing: changing the tone, register or length, simplifying a technical text.
- Summarising: extracting the essentials of a document, a transcribed meeting, an email thread.
- Structuring: turning notes into an outline, an outline into a document, a document into a presentation.
- Translating and adapting: moving from French to German or Italian while keeping the meaning and the tone.
- Suggesting: ideas, titles, quiz questions, variants of the same message.
These tasks have one thing in common: the content comes from you or from a document you provide. The model works on the form. The risk of a factual error is low, and review is quick because you already know the substance.
Write an article about our new offer.
Here are the notes from the launch meeting. Turn them into a 400-word article for our newsletter, in an accessible tone, with a title and two subheadings. Do not add any information that is not in the notes.
The content comes from your notes and the model works on the form, where it is most reliable.
Strengths in the service of learning
These capabilities lend themselves well to training. From a document, Learnya can create a review deck with spaced repetition, an automatically marked assessment, a Flow lesson with multiple-choice questions and matching exercises, or a Deck presentation with a quiz. The document remains the reference, and the model draws varied materials from it.
The last instruction in this example matters. By asking for the source section, you make each card checkable in a few seconds, and you immediately spot a card that comes from nowhere.